Ferdinando Pulton[1] (1536–1618) was an English legal writer, the first to attempt a comprehensive book treating criminal law.
This was his De pace Regis et regni, first published in 1609.
[2] Pulton belonged to Lincoln's Inn, but he was a Roman Catholic, so that at that time a legal career was denied to him.
He was a student at Christ's College, University of Cambridge.
This is credited with making the term Star Chamber common in use.